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This edition was generated on Wed Jul 14 08:45:01 EDT 2010

Table of Contents

General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather

General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 18:17 CDT, a new containment cap, top, is lowered over the broken wellhead at the site of the Dee AP
Gulf oil to keep flowing while cap is analyzed AP – 2 hrs 10 mins ago

NEW ORLEANS – The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and BP said further analysis must be done Wednesday before critical tests could proceed. Full Story »

US indicts six police in post-Hurricane Katrina shooting
Cops could face death in post-Katrina shootings AP – 2 hrs 30 mins ago
Retail sales drop 0.5 percent in June AP – 9 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Steinbrenner AP

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80

AP – Tue Jul 13, 9:36 pm ET

NEW YORK – He was baseball's bombastic Boss. He rebuilt the New York Yankees dynasty, ushering in the era of multimillion-dollar salaries and accepting nothing less in return than World Series championships. He fired managers. Rehired them. And fired them again. Full Story »

World Cup

World Cup critics should be feasting on their words

The Newsroom – Tue Jul 13, 10:15 am ET
Lawrence Taylor

Ex-NFL star Taylor pleads not guilty to NY rape

AP – Tue Jul 13, 3:40 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Retail sales drop 0.5 percent in June

AP – 9 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Retail sales fell in June for the second straight month, raising new concerns about how much of a slowdown the economy will have to endure in the second half of this year. Full Story »

Joaquin Almunia

EU clears BA-Iberia merger, alliance with American

AP – 38 mins ago
In this photograph taken July 12, 2010, traders gather at the post that handles BP on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Investors are ready to

Corporate profits again lift stock futures

AP – 5 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - July 14, 2010
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
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